Synonyms for dictates
dic·tates

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1. List of paraphrases for "dictates":

   diktat, diktats, precepts, determines

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1. Howard Zinn:

   Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

2. Václav Havel:

   The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.

3. Leslie Miklosy:

   Religion dictates, spirituality invites.

4. Molly Schuyler:

   I only compete in coed events, people usually underestimate the girls, but I’ve turned heads. I don’t think gender dictates how well you do.

5. Scott C. Holstad:

   what society dictates, we consume, cattle gathering around learning devices called television, mouths opening wider while addictive morsels of consumerism are violently jammed into us and we lose more bits and pieces of our collective identity daily.